Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory Message-ID: <1990Jan3.225227.7545@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1957@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <73@zds-ux.UUCP> <121.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 22:52:27 GMT In article gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes: >Suns with ECC print a diag when correcting; I have never seen an >uncorrectable error. In general, memory chips have gotten spectacularly more reliable since the Bad Old Days of the 16Kb RAMs that got everyone very interested in ECC and suchlike. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu